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US copyright law 'forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods' for game preservation, say historians who are 'disappointed' after being denied a DMCA exemption (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

Does anyone else also think that buying Steam games makes even less sense now that this has happened and Steam has clarified that we're only buying licenses?

I'm asking this as it feels like right now Itch.io might be the only company that allows devs to directly sell and share their binaries/source code and even then, since Itch.io is under the MIT license there's no guarantee that they wouldn't go source available and then proprietary afterwards.

I feel like as gamers, we're kind of in a shitty situation atm as old games are highly unlikely to go FOSS, Steam's not "selling" games (they legally can't say that anymore), and the last potential solution isn't guaranteed :/

It's hard to see games preservation going anywhere in North America with this ruling. We got dealt a real shit hand man

Sorry for the rambling, I'm just real unhappy about the state of the gaming ecosystem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I only buy games on steam when they're like $5 or less.

I have less than $200 spent in total over the last 16/17 years on steam, and I don't see myself breaking the $5 limit.

I even pay GOG non sale prices if a steam sale jogs my memory of a game I want.

Sailing the high seas isn't feasible right now since I don't control the internet here and I'm not going to risk me not knowing something and landing the owner with potential legal trouble. But I will hopefully be dusting my hat off soon.

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